Part I: #Literacies Chat

You can find the #literacies chat on Twitter every Thursday from 7-8 PM EST. Search for the hashtag #literacies in Twitter. We’ve learned from our friends and colleagues you participate in#engchat that another tool like TweetChat can help you follow the discussion.

In preparation for the chat I am posting some initial thinking on the topic and a few questions here, as well as some general resources about the topic. When I think of remix, I think of it as a method for making meaning and (re)presenting meaning based in part on someone's work that is resituated into a *new* composition. It reminds me of Mikhail Bakhtin's (1981) notion of language as heteroglossia: the unofficial forms of a particular national language; a hybrid of utterances.

Remix is a hybrid of utterances.

Lawrence Lessig (2005) defines remix as: someone mixes things together, and then someone else comes along and remixes what they have created.

There's a lot of space to explore in these definitions. During the chat, I want to think with you about remix in two specific ways that I see as being connected. Remix

as a means of social and rhizomatic composition, and

as a playful method to (re)design concepts about living, learning and schooling.

2 comments:

I don't get out of class till around 7 on Thursdays but will do what I can to participate in the literacy tweet, or read later.

I like the Seeley--except I think he romanticizes the one room schoolhouse. I remember from history of education books children being horribly abused--made to stand with their arms held out with a heavy book on top over the stove. I also think Dewey pushed against the rote and memorization required in those schools.

But Homo Ludens by J. Huizinga was my favorite book from my doctoral studies.

Will share this blog with my grad students; they need internet based texts for an assignment and this will help. Thanks!